The Markup

The Markup
Founded 2019 (2019)
Focus Investigative journalism, technology
Location
Area served
United States
Key people
 Sue Gardner, Executive Director
Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson, Founders
Website themarkup.org

The Markup is an American nonprofit organization based in New York City that will focus on data driven journalism covering the ethics and impact of technology on society. Markup was co-founded by two former ProPublica journalists Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson. The idea was conceived in April 2018, and expects to launch in early 2019.[1]

Like ProPublica, all of their content will be licensed under a Creative Commons license.[2]

Data journalism

According to Julia Angwin, The Markup plans to collect and create public data sets through public records requests, automated data collection, crowdsourcing of information and creation of tools, for example at ProPublica they built a browser extension to analyze Facebook ads.[3]

Funding

The Markup received $20 million gift from Craigslist founder Craig Newmark. They also raised $2 million from the Knight Foundation and an additional $1 million from Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation and the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative.[2]

Sources

  1. ↑ Owen, Laura H. (2018-04-12). "Former ProPublica journalists are launching a newsroom to cover the impact of technology on society". Nieman Lab. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  2. 1 2 Bowles, Nellie (2018-09-23). "News Site to Investigate Big Tech, Helped by Craigslist Founder". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  3. ↑ "It may be 'data journalism,' but Julia Angwin's new site the Markup is nothing like FiveThirtyEight". Recode. Retrieved 2018-10-01.


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